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I think I have seen this lovely missive here before, but couldn't find it on a search. Don't know how I want to respond to this, either point-by-point or by a broader based view, i.e. "do the ends justify the means, even if it includes lying to the American people", including the massive amounts of information regarding the shifting reasons for going to war, the "imminent threat", the ever-elusive WMD, the inevitability of a draft if * is re-elected (she has two sons, ages 21 and 19 who will probably be eligible, although they do have the money to buy their way out), etc.
Here it is:
Subject: Progress In Iraq
SINCE PRESIDENT BUSH DECLARED AN END TO MAJOR COMBAT ON MAY 1:
...the first battalion of the new Iraqi Army has graduated and is on active
duty
... over 60,000 Iraqis now provide security to their fellow citizens.
...nearly all of Iraq's 400 courts are functioning.
... the Iraqi judiciary is fully independent.
...on Monday, October 6 power generation hit 4,518 mega-watts exceeding the
pre-war average.
...all 22 universities and 43 technical institutes and colleges are open, as
are nearly all primary and secondary schools.
... by October 1, Coalition forces had rehabbed over 1,500 schools - 500
more than their target.
... teachers earn from 12 to 25 times their former salaries.
...all 240 hospitals and more than 1200 clinics are open.
...doctor's salaries are at least eight times what they were under Saddam.
...pharmaceutical distribution has gone from essentially nothing to 700 tons
in May to a current total of 12,000 tons.
...the Coalition has helped administer over 22 million vaccination doses to
Iraq's children.
...a Coalition program has cleared over 14,000 kilometers of Iraq's 27,000
kilometers of weed-choked canals. They now irrigate tens of thousands of
farms. This project has created jobs for more than 100,000 Iraqi men and
women.
...we have restored over three-quarters of pre-war telephone services and
over two-thirds of the potable water production.
... there are 4,900 full-service connections. We expect 50,000 by January
first.
...the wheels of commerce are turning. From bicycles to satellite dishes to
cars and trucks, businesses are coming to life in all major cities and
towns.
...95 percent of all pre-war bank customers have service and first-time
customers are opening accounts daily.
... Iraqi banks are making loans to finance businesses.
...the central bank is fully independent.
... Iraq has one of the world's most growth-oriented investment and banking
laws.
.. Iraq (has) a single, unified currency for the first time in 15 years.
...satellite dishes are legal.
...foreign journalists aren't on 10-day visas paying mandatory and
extortionate fees to the Ministry of Information for minder's and other
government spies.
.. there is no Ministry of Information.
...there are more than 170 newspapers.
... you can buy satellite dishes on what seems like every street corner.
... foreign journalists and everyone else are free to come and go.
...a nation that had not one single element legislative, judicial, or
executive-- of a representative government, does.
...in Baghdad alone residents have selected 88 advisory councils. Baghdad's
first democratic transfer of power in 35 years happened when the city
council elected its new chairman.
...today in Iraq chambers of commerce, business, school and professional
organizations are electing their leaders all over the country.
... 25 ministers, selected by the most representative governing body in
Iraq's history, run the day-to-day business of government.
...the Iraqi government regularly participates in international events.
Since July the Iraqi government has been represented in over two dozen
international meetings, including those of the UN General Assembly, the Arab
League, the World Bank and IMF and, today, the Islamic Conference Summit.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it is reopening over 30 Iraqi
embassies around the world.
...Shia religious festivals that were all but banned, aren't.
... for the first time in 35 years, in Kabala thousands of Shiites
celebrate the pilgrimage of the 12th Imam.
...the Coalition has completed over 13,000 reconstruction projects, large
and small, as part of (a) strategic plan for the reconstruction of Iraq.
...Uday and Queasy are dead - and no longer feeding innocent Iraqis to his
zoo lions, raping the young daughters of local leaders to force cooperation,
torturing Iraq's soccer players for losing games...murdering critics.
...children aren't imprisoned or murdered when their parents disagree with
the government.
...political opponents aren't imprisoned, tortured, executed, maimed, or are
forced to watch their families die for disagreeing with Saddam.
...millions of longsuffering Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.
...Saudis will hold municipal elections.
... Qatar is reforming education to give more choices to parents.
... Jordan is accelerating market economic reforms.
... the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for the first time to an Iranian -- a
Muslim woman who speaks out with courage for human rights, for democracy and
for peace.
...Saddam is gone.
... Iraq is free.
NOT BAD FOR AN ADMINISTRATION:
...WITH NO PLAN.
...NO DIRECTION
...WAS GOING TO BE SLAUGHTERED GOING INTO BAGHDAD
...WAS ONLY IN THIS FOR THE OIL.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance to all the wonderful people here at DU.
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